Ludington -- The company that owns the SS Badger is cancelling its car ferries Saturday due to heavy winds and high waves on Lake Michigan. The Badger runs between Ludington and Manitowoc, Wis., but...

An historic building is burning in Highland Park.The Highland Towers on Woodward Avenue and Glendale Street ignited Friday night.The fire started on the top floor of vacant building and quickly...

Warren Mayor Jim Fouts has issues with President Barack Obama.Fouts fired off a letter to the White House Friday after reading excerpts in the Detroit News from a forthcoming memoir of Steve Rattner,...

Clarkston no longer has a police department to call its own.The small department had a growing budget deficit.As a result, Clarkston's police chief, one full-time officer, eight part-time officers...

This fall, Sears and Kmart are excited to announce the launch of an exclusive new soft home collection, Casa Cristina(TM). Created by well-known Hispanic journalist and talk show host Cristina...

"I made a bad throw, and he made a nice play," Stafford said, and that pretty much sums it up. Nobody will care in a week. I don't think too many people cared the moment it happened,...

Fox said Friday that DioGuardi made the decision to leave the hit singing contest, which she judged with DeGeneres, Cowell and Randy Jackson - who's now the only one left on the panel.A new lineup of...

Fire engulfed an abandoned apartment complex along Woodward in Highland Park this evening, forcing firefighters to call in surrounding departments for help and use at least three aerial ladders to...

Dearborn -- The executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations-Michigan said his 12-minute speech today at a Jerusalem Day rally in front of Dearborn City Hall was misrepresented by...

Buena Vista Township -- Authorities say a 79-year-old pilot was unhurt when his small plane crashed in a bean field near Saginaw County's Browne Airport this afternoon. The Saginaw News and WNEM-TV...

On Saturday, Brock Mealer will emerge from the tunnel inside the University of Michigan's football stadium, rise from his wheel chair and lead the Wolverine team onto the field.The Ohio native was...

Troy police are investigating a rash of vehicle thefts at Oakland Mall and Oakland Plaza.Police said there have been at least three thefts and one attempted theft in the past week. ...

: "Police have arrested a third person in connection with the murder of Samuel Boob. Boob was shot and killed at his home ... Kermit Butts, 26, of Madisonburg, is accused of driving the suspected...

Warren Mayor Jim Fouts sent a scathing letter to President Obama Friday in response to reports saying the White House quashed efforts by General Motors to move from Detroit to the GM Tech Center in...

The City of Hamtramck filed a lawsuit this afternoon in Wayne County Circuit Court against the City of Detroit in hopes of receiving $4 million in tax revenues Hamtramck officials said the City of...

A Warren juror was fined $250 and ordered to write a five-page essay on the Sixth Amendment after a Macomb County judge found her in contempt of court for declaring a defendant guilty on Facebook...

A man was caught on surveillance cameras Monday morning trying unsuccessfully to crack open a Little Caesar's restaurant's safe with crowbars. ...

Police Searching For Trio Of Store Robbers Police said a Family Dollar store on Seven Mile Road has been robbed twice, as well as stores on Tireman Avenue and Schaefer Highway.Police said the men...

CINCINNATI - A grand jury has indicted a Cincinnati man for allegedly not taking care of his bedridden wife and allowing her to be eaten by maggots while...

The school board filed suit last summer against Robert Bobb claiming that he illegally is making academic decisions and has failed to share financial plans with the board as required by law. The...

Officials at Selfridge Air National Guard base will be moving about 180 employees back into two buildings scrubbed clean of Legionnaires' disease after an outbreak in...

Canton Township -- A 69-year-old Belleville man died this morning in a fiery crash on Interstate 275 near Cherry Hill Road. Leo Eugene West died in the 7:30 a.m. incident on the northbound side of...

Detroit -- A Romeo man pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving a mortgage scheme and faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Giuseppe Cracchiolo...

A southern Michigan man simply wanted to gather some sweet corn for the family freezer. He didn't expect to have to deal with a 34-inch alligator rushing at him. Jeff Adamski of St. Joseph County was...

The star of "Home Improvement" and the "Toy Story" movies is becoming a pitchman for Chevrolet. General Motors Co. said Tim Allen will be a spokesman for the brand and will star in a series of TV ads...

Detroit Lions rookie defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was fined $7,500 by the NFL on Friday for his roughing-the-passer penalty on quarterback Jake Delhomme in an exhibition game against the Browns.The...

A California man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a Madison Heights man in 2001.Robert Martin Nowak, 50, has been bound over for trial on a premeditated homicide charge in...

The head of the Catholic Church in Detroit is to bless a grave marker Saturday at a pro-life event remembering fetuses that were found in 2008 in a Lathrup Village...

The first-degree murder trial of Chauncey Owens, accused of killing a Detroit teenager for giving him a dirty look, was rescheduled this morning for Nov....

Royal Oak -- An annual Labor Day festival that has become a tradition for hundreds of thousands of Metro Detroiters opened in a new venue Friday with no Arts -- but plenty of Beats and Eats. The 13th...

A circuit court judge has asked for further explanation on why a sexual assault charge against former Detroit Lion Tommie Boyd has been dropped.Boyd, 38, of Shelby Township was charged with sexual...

: "CHINA HAS produced all kinds of heroes in the six decades since the revolution, but the latest public servant to qualify for hero status, who died after falling off the toilet, is causing a major...

According to a CBS report, the Australian mother used a skin-to-skin contact method called the "Kangaroo Care Method" to save the life of one of her premature babies who was born without vital signs....

Take in the music this holiday weekend with the sweet sounds of jazz at the Detroit International Jazz Festival. The festival is touted as one of the world’s premier jazz festivals on Labor Day...

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that Cincinnati and Detroit are the two final pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Program that is using health information...

In preparation for the new school year The Children's Center's is gearing up their early intervention programs for families and children with autistic spectrum disorders between the ages 18 months to...

KNOXVILLE -- Former General Motors Chairman and CEO Frederick A. “Fritz” Henderson has been tabbed to head Knoxville-based SunCoke Energy, which makes coke for steel...

Freep.com has all you need to know if you're going to Ford Arts, Beats & Eats the four-day Labor Day weekend festival now in Royal Oak after a dozen years in Pontiac.Come back to freep.com for more...

Detroit -- Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb and members of the Detroit Board of Education will be back in court today in their legal fight over academic control in the state's largest school...

Ludington -- The company that owns the SS Badger says the car ferry won't be sailing due to heavy winds and high waves on Lake Michigan. The Badger runs between Ludington and Manitowoc, Wis., but its...

Harper Woods -- The Michigan Intelligent Transportation system is reporting that westbound Interstate 94 is closed at Eight Mile due a crash. Police are on the scene and there are no reports at this...

Several lanes of Interstate 275 were shut down on Friday morning in a crash that killed one person.The accident happened around 7:30 a.m. on I-275 near Cherry Hill Road in Canton Township.Police said...

Ben Roethlisberger's suspension has been reduced from six games to four by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The Pittsburgh Steelers' star quarterback met with Goodell early Friday and was told he...